Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 21

Mr Ralston, I fancy, was the first to call the attention of the West to these curious stories, though the want at that time of a good Ruthenian dictionary (a want since supplied by the excellent lexicon of Zhelekhovsky and Nidilsky) prevented him from utilizing them.

Who acts: I, Mr, first, West · What happens: fancy, be, call, supply, prevent, utilize · To what, where: attention, curious stories, want, Mr, Zhelekhovsky · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mr, first, West), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 first	nsubj
2	Ralston	Ralston	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fancy	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fancy	nsubj
5	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mr	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 first	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 first	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 prevented	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 call	mark
11	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 first	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 attention	det
13	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 West	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 West	det
16	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 attention	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 stories	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 stories	det
19	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stories	amod
20	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 call	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
22	though	though	ADP	_	24 want	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 want	det
24	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 dictionary	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dictionary	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dictionary	amod
31	Ruthenian	ruthenian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dictionary	amod
32	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 time	nmod
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 want	det
35	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dictionary	appos
36	since	since	SCONJ	_	37 supplied	mark
37	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 want	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	41 lexicon	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lexicon	det
40	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lexicon	amod
41	lexicon	lexicon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 supplied	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Zhelekhovsky	case
43	Zhelekhovsky	Zhelekhovsky	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 lexicon	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Nidilsky	cc
45	Nidilsky	Nidilsky	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Zhelekhovsky	conj
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct
47	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 prevented	obj
49	from	from	SCONJ	_	50 utilizing	mark
50	utilizing	utilize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 prevented	advcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 utilizing	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 prevented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fancy		I					tree rules
2	is	past	Mr				first property	tree rules
3	call	to-infinitive		the attention of the West	this curious stories	time	though the want	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to story=Recipient
4	supply	participle		a want not said here			by the excellent lexicon of Zhelekhovsky and Nidilsky	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	prevent	past	the first	Mr				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
6	utilize	gerund	the first not said here	Zhelekhovsky				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	attend		the West					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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